All 3 Uses of
inquisition
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- My story is laid in Spain, in Seville, in the most terrible time of the Inquisition, when fires were lighted every day to the glory of God, and 'in the splendid auto da fe the wicked heretics were burnt.'†
Chpt 5
- The guards lead their prisoner to the close, gloomy vaulted prison in the ancient palace of the Holy Inquisition and shut Him in it.†
Chpt 5 *
- 'For now' (he is speaking of the Inquisition, of course) 'for the first time it has become possible to think of the happiness of men.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(inquisition) common noun: questioning or investigation -- often implying harsh questioning
or:
proper noun: a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (or their investigations) created to discover and suppress heresy